Tire Impact Damage Detection Using Normalized Wheel Speed

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current tire damage detection technologies are not efficient or reliable enough to promptly identify potential tire damage caused by impacts on obstacles, leading to risks of tire carcass failure and other vehicle damage if not addressed promptly.

Innovation Solution

A tire damage detection system that includes an acquisition device to measure wheel and vehicle speeds, a processing device to compute normalized wheel speed ratios, and a notification system to alert drivers of potential tire damage based on predefined models and thresholds, which are determined through tests with various obstacles and speeds.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If wheel impact sensing systems are used to detect tire damage, then tire damage detection capability is provided, but the system complexity increases and reliability is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetire damage detection reliabilityVSAvoiddetection system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the tire damage detection function from complex multi-sensor impact sensing systems and implements it through a simplified approach using only existing wheel speed sensor data. By taking out the essential detection function and removing unnecessary system complexity, the invention achieves reliable tire damage detection while avoiding the drawbacks of complex device architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Measurement precision

If normalization of wheel speed data is performed to improve detection accuracy, then measurement precision is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewheel speed measurement precisionVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary normalization processing to wheel speed data by comparing current wheel speed with historical average wheel speed data. This preliminary action of normalizing data against established baselines enables rapid real-time detection without requiring complex computational processing, thus improving measurement precision while minimizing processing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of time

If real-time detection is implemented to promptly identify tire damage, then response time is reduced, but system complexity and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection response timeVSAvoidreal-time processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a self-service detection mechanism where the system automatically compares current wheel speed measurements with pre-stored historical average data and automatically generates damage alerts when anomalies are detected. This self-service approach enables real-time detection without requiring complex external processing systems, reducing both response time and system complexity by making the detection system autonomous and computationally efficient.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3856539B1Tire damage detection system and method
Publication Date: 2024.01.10 BRIDGESTONE EURO NV SA
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AI summary

The invention concerns a system and a method for detecting potential damages to tires of motor vehicles due to impacts against/on obstacles.